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2025 M. Necati Ozisik Distinguished Lecture: Srinivas Garimella
April 25 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
About the M. Necati Ozisik Distinguished Lecture series:
The Dr. M. Necati Ozisik Distinguished Lecture Series was established in late 2022 to honor the tremendous impact and contributions that Dr. Ozisik had on research, teaching and the profession of engineering. Dr. Ozisik joined the NC State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering faculty in 1963. He was the primary advisor for more than 45 doctoral students at NC State, many of whom are now established leaders in industry and academia. Dr. Ozisik was an internationally known authority on the subject of Heat Transfer who had over 270 research publications and authored 11 books.
He was an elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the recipient of numerous prestigious awards recognizing his teaching and research excellence, including the Oliver Max Gardner Award (1985), the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (1987), the North Carolina State University Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professors Award (1989), and the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence (1992). Dr. Ozisik was a kind and thoughtful man who dedicated his life to making advances in his profession and developing the next generation of engineering leaders. He continued to remain active with research and writing books for several years after his official retirement as Professor Emeritus in 1993.
Title:
Food, Water, Comfort, Shelter: Putting heat to work, cool, clean, conserve, and preserve
Abstract:
Heat transfer is at the heart of just about every human need and activity. Burgeoning worldwide energy demand, especially in the developing countries, and its impact on global climate, have further brought the importance of heat transfer to the fore. In the push toward decarbonization, electrification alone may not yield immediate reductions in carbon emissions because fossil-free renewable options are still in the ramp up phase. Innovations in the energy conversion, storage, and utilization sectors that leverage the transfer, recovery, pumping, and upgrade of heat will be highlighted. Space-conditioning using renewable energy or waste heat from the kW to MW scales will be discussed. Applications of heating pumping, including enhancing the performance of commercial dryers, and the development of diurnal and seasonal thermal storage systems, will be discussed. Adsorption chillers driven by biomass, solar or waste heat for use in the cold chain to reduce food spoilage in developing countries will also be presented. Simultaneous space-conditioning and water purification systems at the residential scale, power plant cooling without water-intensive cooling towers, innovative designs for next generation nuclear reactors, sorbent-loaded microchannel fibers for carbon capture from power plants, decarbonization of gypsum board fabrication, water and energy conservation in aluminum ingot casting, cooling of data centers, and optimization of industrial chillers are other heat transfer related technologies that will be briefly discussed. These representative applications demonstrate the vast potential for innovations and the impact of heat transfer as the backbone for meeting essential human needs such as food, clothing, shelter, and thermal comfort.
Bio:
Dr. Srinivas Garimella is the Hightower Chair in Engineering and Director of the Sustainable Thermal Systems Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the ASME and of ASHRAE. He is Editor of the Int. J. Air-conditioning and Refrigeration, and past Associate Editor of the ASME J. Heat Transfer and ASME J Energy Resources Technology, and of the ASHRAE SBTE Journal. He is Past Chair of the Advanced Energy Systems Division of ASME and was on the ASHRAE Research Administration Committee. He has mentored over 75 postdoctoral researchers, research engineers and students pursuing their M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, with his research resulting in over 375 archival journal and conference publications, a textbook on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Minichannels and Microchannels (2nd Ed., Elsevier 2014), and books on Condensation Heat Transfer (World Scientific Publishing, 2015) and Adsorption Heat Pumps (Springer Nature, 2021.) He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (1999), the ASHRAE New Investigator Award (1998), the SAE Ralph E. Teetor Educational Award for Engineering Educators (1998). He received the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (2024), and the Georg Alefeld award (2024) for outstanding and lifelong contributions to the field of sorption chillers and heat pumps. He also received the ASME Award for Outstanding Research Contributions in the Field of Two-Phase Flow and Condensation in Microchannels, 2012 and the Prominent Researcher Award at the Micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena Conference 2022 for sustained and outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of phase change heat transfer at mini‐ and micro‐scales and coupled heat and mass transfer in binary fluids. He was recognized with the Thomas French Distinguished Educator Achievement Award (2008) from The Ohio State University, and the Zeigler Outstanding Educator Award (2012) and the Sigma Xi Sustained Research Award (2023) from Georgia Tech.